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Senate Race Rope a Dope? Heineman, Bruning & Deb Fischer…and Stenberg

Originally published May 15, 2012, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated April 22, 2018. 9 Comments

Senate Race Rope a Dope? Heineman, Bruning & Deb Fischer…and Stenberg

UPDATED May 16, 2012: Note that this article was published earlier in the day Tuesday, before the polls even closed. I am not going to make any changes to this article so that you can read it, as written, before the race was declared. The only point to note, I believe, is that it is […]

Filed Under: 2012 Election, Elections, Featured, Federal, Nebraska, Senators, Uncategorized, US Senate Tagged With: afp-ne, americans for prosperity, anrold stuthman, beau mccoy, brian beuscher, bruning for attorney general, campaign finance, carol burling, committee to elect eurek for ne legislature, dave heineman, deb fischer, dennis utter, dennis utter for legislature, dierks for legislature, eurek, expenditures by candidates, financial disclosure laws, fischer for legislature, garwood for legislature, governor heineman appointees, governor heineman committee, heineman appointment, j. peter ricketts, john harms, john n. harms for legislature, jon bruning, kutack rock law firm, leveraging political donations, Mark Christensen, mark christensen for legislature, mark fahelson, mccoy for legislature, meridian central public affairs, mike friend, mike friend for legislature, ne afp, ne americans for prosperity, nebraska, nebraska chapter americans for prosperity, nebraska pacs, nebraskans for a better tomorrow, negop, negop chair, pete ricketts, pete ricketts political contributions, peter ricketts, political consultants nebraska, political contributions of politicians, powerful politicians nebraska, republican national committeeman nebraska, requirements for filing politicians, sam fischer, shane osborn for state treasurer, shane osburn, state director, state law campaign finance nebraska, state senators, state statutes, tom carlson, transparency laws, urban affairs committee

Following the Jon Bruning Money Trail

Originally published May 11, 2012, By Shellinda. Updated July 21, 2015. 1 Comment

Following the Jon Bruning Money Trail

As noted in the title, this article is about the subject of money, including campaign fundraising and expenditures and income / wealth earned by Bruning during his years in public office. Earlier today, we published an article, pictured at right, which covered a broad range of topics about Nebraska’s current Attorney  General; some, we think, […]

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So We Had A Resolution, Huh? Hmm. How IS That State Sovereignty Thing Workin’ Out For Us?

Originally published November 8, 2011, By Shellinda. Updated July 21, 2015. 2 Comments

So We Had A Resolution, Huh? Hmm. How IS That State Sovereignty Thing Workin’ Out For Us?

Last updated, September 2014 Nebraska was one of only fourteen states to see the successful passage of a State Sovereignty Resolution in the two year period 2009 – 2010, while well over thirty states had resolutions. In other words,

Filed Under: Big Brother Government, Budget, Constitution, Data Gathering, Electronic Monitoring, Featured, Federal Legislation, Founding Principles, Government Spending, Governor, Health Care, Information Sharing, Like Drunken Sailors, Nebraska, REAL ID, Senators, State Legislation, State Sovereignty, Tenth Amendment, Unicameral Tagged With: 10th Amendment, 2009 permit application transcanada, afp-ne, american sovereignty, americans for prosperity, americans for prosperity-nebraska, annette dubas, annette dubas transcanada payment, atkinson state dept. hearing, bad faith legal argument, beau mccoy, bitumen, canadian neb, charles and david koch, charles koch, chris langemeier, cir, collective bargaining for public employees, commission of industrial relations, dave heineman, david koch, deb fischer, definition of public purpose, eminent domain, energy security, environmental groups, ex post facto, fischer real id, flint hills resources, foreign trade zone, ftc investigation canadian market manipulation, gas prices, governor heineman, gulf coast, hardisty alberta canada, healthcare implementation, heavy crude, heineman, holt county nebraska, illinois, indiana, interim study report natural resources, interstate commerce, iowa, j. peter ricketts, job creation, jon bruning, kansas, kate sullivan, kelo v new london, ken haar, kentucky, keystone xl, keystone xl market manipulation, keystone xl pipeline project, keystone xl pipeline section 52 application, koch foundation, koch industries, labors local #1140, lee terry, lee terry congressional research service, lee terry crs, life liberty property, lobbying on pipeline, michigan, midwest padd ii, midwestern states gas prices, mike friend, minnesota, missouri, national energy board canada, national id card, national interest, natural resources committee, ne congressman lee terry, nebraska, nebraska attorney general, nebraska eminent domain, nebraska kelo law, nebraska legislature, nebraska sovereignty, north american made energy security act, north dakota, nullification, ogallala aquifer, ohio, oklahoma, padd iii, padd iii region, pete ricketts, philip verleger, pipeline regulatory, pipeline siting authority, platte institute, politics makes strange bedfellows, presidential permit application, proper role of government, property rights, public employee unions, public service commission, real id, representative lee terry, rod kaminski, sandhills, sen. dubas, sen. tony fulton, sen.fulton, senator annette dubas, shareholder presentations, south dakota, special law, special legislation, special session nebraska, special session pipeline, startribune, state director afp-ne, state senators, state sovereignty, synthetic crude, tar sands, tennessee, Tenth Amendment, tony fulton, transcanada, transcanada market manipulation, transportation and telecommunications committee, u.s. constitution, u.s. state department, uncamerical, usgc, waiting for godot, wisconsin

Is President Obama Smarter Than A Fifth Grader?

Originally published November 5, 2011, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated July 21, 2015. 14 Comments

Is President Obama Smarter Than A Fifth Grader?

I’ve received some feedback on the most recent article published here “TransCanada Trojan Horse: Keystone XL Pipeline Will Increase Gas Prices“. That feedback confirms my earlier concerns about the use of environmentalist rhetoric in the pipeline project debate. That feedback also confirms that anyone else interested in running for Miss Popularity in the state need […]

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TransCanada Trojan Horse: Keystone XL Pipeline Will Increase Gas Prices

Originally published November 2, 2011, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated April 27, 2017. 13 Comments

TransCanada Trojan Horse: Keystone XL Pipeline Will Increase Gas Prices

As we’ve noted repeatedly in our articles on the subject, our primary interest in the Keystone XL pipeline project was the conduct of Nebraska’s elected officials at both the state and federal levels, and serious concerns about property rights. We did not have an overall position on the project and we did not recommend any […]

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#1 Question for Lee Terry: What DID You Do With That 2010 CRS Report About Pipeline Authority?

Originally published October 4, 2011, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated March 9, 2012. 2 Comments

#1 Question for Lee Terry: What DID You Do With That 2010 CRS Report About Pipeline Authority?

Updated October 26, 2011: Considering the popularity of this article, we thought it important to list all of our TransCanada / Keystone XL pipeline pieces: If you are going to read one article, we recommend #4, as it best summarizes the whole subject. Note that there are links in each to prior articles. 1) Transcending […]

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Terribly Troubling Truths About TransCanada Pipeline – Nebraska: We Have A Problem

Originally published September 30, 2011, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated September 30, 2011. 12 Comments

Terribly Troubling Truths About TransCanada Pipeline – Nebraska: We Have A Problem

On Tuesday we wrote an article about the TransCanada pipeline issue that has been getting a lot of reads and generated a number of e-mails and phone calls. We even drew the attention of one of the people mentioned, Bold Nebraska’s Jane Kleeb, who stated that she wants to sit down and have coffee. Tuesday’s […]

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Nebraska is Essentially a One Party State

Originally published September 16, 2011, By Linda. Updated November 6, 2014. 6 Comments

Nebraska is Essentially a One Party State

Editor’s Note: This is the seventh article in a series about Nebraska politics, particularly as pertains to the Nebraska Republican Party and closely connected groups and their relationship to the “tea party movement”. We recommend starting with the article “Nebraska’s Ruling Class and the Perils of (Assisted) Political Suicide” which includes links to all other […]

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